"One Cross. One City. One Impossible Mission."The electrifying sequel to the international bestseller By Royal Design, from master storyteller Dr. Norbert E. ReichA world divided by religion. A city claimed by three faiths. A mission that could end in salvation-or annihilation.In By Papal Decree: The Middle East, Dr. Norbert E. Reich delivers a breathtaking continuation of his high-intensity geopolitical thriller series. As Pope Leo XIV unveils h...

A Nation Divided. A Power Play at the Highest Levels. A Deadly Mission. From acclaimed author Norbert Reich comes By Her Majesty's Command, a masterfully crafted political thriller that pulls back the curtain on the dark forces shaping the fate of nations.Elite assassin Adam Bergman thought he had left his deadly career behind-until MI6 makes him an offer too lucrative to ignore. His target? The Chancellor of Germany and President of the European Union, a man standing in the way of...

Random Emotions A collection of poems written over many years Years when emotions changed Years we all have experienced Random Emotions, we all have them Other books by Norbert E. Reich, a duology of fictitious novels, BY ROYAL DESIGN and BY PAPAL DECREE.

With his knees buried in the hot sand and his hands tied behind his back, an American doctor who came to Syria to help needy people stares into the camera. Seconds later, the masked man behind him hands a large knife to an Arab teenager who beheads the doctor. As President Monica Drew watches the video in horror, she decides to create what she hopes is her legacy. Professional killer Adam Bergman has just washed up on the Bahamian shores, naked inside a skiff, without any idea of how he go...

The United States of America has become too powerful, yet terrorist groups threaten the security of its citizens. As a result the government becomes a police state; it spies on its citizens, its closest allies, laws are enacted by executive orders, not by the will of the people. The Royals, some of Europes aristocratic families, decide to change it all, change the balance of power. Israel too becomes a player. The Mossad, Israels renowned intelligence agency, leads the way: Through decepti...

Art restorer, assassin, spy—Gabriel Allon returns in The Fallen Angel, another blockbuster espionage thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva. The acclaimed author of Portrait of a Spy, Silva (“a world class practitioner of spy fiction” —Washington Post) is an undisputed master of the genre who has brought “new life to the international thriller” (Newsday).A breathtaking adventure that races around the globe, T...

Art investigator Madison Dupre knew the offer was too good to be true: $20,000 for a quick trip to Dubai, the fantastic Arabian Nights city on the Persian Gulf. The call came from Sir Henri Lipton, a man who was supposed to be dead—and who she sincerely had hoped was burning in hell because he had ruined her career before his violent "demise." He told her only one tantalizing thing about the piece of art: "Let's just say it's a couple thousand years old and was buried with Christ....

Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon, where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard, he had a shrapnel collection -- the schoolboy currency of Beirut. Dom's upbringing was interspersed with terrifying days and nights spent hunkered in the family basement under Syrian rocket attack or coming across a pile of severed heads from a sectarian execution in the pine forests near his ho...

‘Allon is the 21st century Bond.’ Daily MailFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva comes a two-book collection featuring art restorer and spy, Gabriel Allon – includes PORTRAIT OF A SPY and THE FALLEN ANGEL.PORTRAIT OF A SPYEurope is exploding. And one man must find out why.For Gabriel Allon and his wife Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a romantic weekend in London. But nothin...

A revelatory look at what happens when political Islam collides with the secular WestIan Buruma's Murder in Amsterdam is a masterpiece of investigative journalism, a book with the intimacy and narrative control of a crime novel and the analytical brilliance for which Buruma is renowned. On a cold November day in Amsterdam in 2004, the celebrated and controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was shot and killed by an Islamic extremist for making a movie t...

The #1 New York Times-bestselling author who "never fails to find the absurd" addresses everything from airport security to the Iraq War ( The New York Times Book Review).To unravel the mysteries of war, P.J. O'Rourke first visits Kosovo. ("Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months later and bomb the country next to where it's happening.") He travels to Israel at the outbreak of the intifada. He flies to...

A New York Times Notable Book: "A rumination on the Islamic Republic's culture of terror . . . [A] captivating narrative" (PBS).On the evening of September 17, 1992, eight leading members of the Iranian and Kurdish opposition had gathered at a little-known restaurant in Berlin when two darkly-clad men burst through the entrance. Within moments, the roar of a machine gun filled the air. Two rounds of fire and four single shots later, four of the men were dead. One o...